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adjective
1.
Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
2.
useless; ineffectual; vain.
3.
devoid; destitute (usually followed by of ): a life void of meaning.
4.
without contents; empty.
5.
without an incumbent, as an office.
noun
8.
an empty space; emptiness: He disappeared into the void.
9.
something experienced as a loss or privation: His death left a great void in her life.
10.
a gap or opening, as in a wall.
11.
a vacancy; vacuum.
12.
verb (used with object)
14.
to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify: to void a check.
15.
to empty; discharge; evacuate: to void excrement.
16.
to clear or empty (often followed by of ): to void a chamber of occupants.
17.
Archaic. to depart from; vacate.
verb (used without object)
18.
to defecate or urinate.
Origin:
1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English voide < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocīta, feminine of *vocītus, dissimilated variant of Latin vocīvus, itself variant of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (v.) Middle English voiden < Anglo-French voider, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocītāre, derivative of *vocītus; (noun) derivative of the adj.
1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English voide < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocīta, feminine of *vocītus, dissimilated variant of Latin vocīvus, itself variant of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (v.) Middle English voiden < Anglo-French voider, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocītāre, derivative of *vocītus; (noun) derivative of the adj.
Related forms
void·ness, noun
non·void, adjective, noun
pre·void, verb (used with object)
un·void, adjective
un·void·ness, noun
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World English Dictionary
void (vɔɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj (foll by of) | |
| 1. | without contents; empty |
| 2. | not legally binding: null and void |
| 3. | (of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied |
| 4. | destitute or devoid: void of resources |
| 5. | having no effect; useless: all his efforts were rendered void |
| 6. | (of a card suit or player) having no cards in a particular suit: his spades were void |
| —n | |
| 7. | an empty space or area: the huge desert voids of Asia |
| 8. | a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation: his divorce left him in a void |
| 9. | a lack of any cards in one suit: to have a void in spades |
| 10. | Also called: counter the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o |
| —vb | |
| 11. | to make ineffective or invalid |
| 12. | to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents |
| 13. | (also intr) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder) |
| 14. | archaic to vacate (a place, room, etc) |
| 15. | obsolete to expel |
| [C13: from Old French vuide, from Vulgar Latin vocītus (unattested), from Latin vacuus empty, from vacāre to be empty] | |
| 'voider | |
| —n | |
| 'voidness | |
| —n | |
| void (vɔɪd) | |
| —adj (foll by of) | |
| 1. | without contents; empty |
| 2. | not legally binding: null and void |
| 3. | (of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied |
| 4. | destitute or devoid: void of resources |
| 5. | having no effect; useless: all his efforts were rendered void |
| 6. | (of a card suit or player) having no cards in a particular suit: his spades were void |
| —n | |
| 7. | an empty space or area: the huge desert voids of Asia |
| 8. | a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation: his divorce left him in a void |
| 9. | a lack of any cards in one suit: to have a void in spades |
| 10. | Also called: counter the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o |
| —vb | |
| 11. | to make ineffective or invalid |
| 12. | to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents |
| 13. | (also intr) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder) |
| 14. | archaic to vacate (a place, room, etc) |
| 15. | obsolete to expel |
| [C13: from Old French vuide, from Vulgar Latin vocītus (unattested), from Latin vacuus empty, from vacāre to be empty] | |
| 'voider | |
| —n | |
| 'voidness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
void
late 13c., "unoccupied, vacant," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. voide "empty, vast, wide, hollow, waste," from L. vocivus "unoccupied, vacant," related to vacuus "empty" (see vacuum). Meaning "lacking or wanting" (something) is recorded from early 15c. Meaning "legally invalid"
is attested from mid-15c. Noun sense of "empty space, vacuum" is from 1727. The verb meaning "to clear" (some place, of something) is first recorded c.1300; meaning "to deprive (something) of legal validity" is attested from early 14c.
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Medical Dictionary
void (void)
v. void·ed, void·ing, voids
To excrete body wastes. adj.
Containing no matter; empty.
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